Showing posts with label IRS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IRS. Show all posts

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Tax Dodger Donald Trump Is Looking Out for His Own Kind

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23580840/donald-trump-republicans-slash-irs-funding-enforcement/
"In typical Trumpian fashion, it was not enough to scam the government. His father engineered a trickle-down scam, where this family—whose scion now bills himself as a Fighter For The Forgotten Man as a politician—used the mechanisms of tax avoidance to also squeeze the little guy with artificial rent hikes."

In Trump, GOP Grifters Welcomed the Biggest of Them All

https://www.thedailybeast.com/in-trump-gop-grifters-welcomed-the-biggest-of-them-all?ref=home
"Trump was the logical culmination of all the moves Republicans have made in the last 25 years or so to degrade the norms of our democracy, he is also the logical culmination of everything they’ve done to turn the economy from one that helped the broad middle class to one that serves only those at the top. Put more succinctly: Of course they elected a plutocrat tax cheat. They spent 30 years making the world safe for plutocrat tax cheats!"

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Web of Berman Front Groups Subject of IRS Complaint

Web of Berman Front Groups Subject of IRS Complaint
"According to Wayne Pacelle, HSUS' executive director, some of the more than 7,000 supporting documents submitted with the IRS complaint "detail . . . how Berman’s syndicate of phony tax-exempt front groups, all of which are registered charities under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Service code, operate essentially as a scheme to defraud the U.S. Treasury and taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars." Among the documents is allegedly a contract between one of the non-profits and Berman & Co., which Berman himself signed twice -- both on behalf of his front group and on behalf of his PR firm."